Category: Patient Safety

During a recent work group meeting with a hospital client, Vitalacy reviewed a month’s worth of data gathered by dispenser sensor tags...

I noticed a commentary published in Modern Healthcare (2019) by Ann Marie Benedicto, the vice president of the Joint Commission Center for...

A group of staffers at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle began what would turn out to be an eye-opening experience with a...

Health care and sports have more in common than you might think, especially in regard to performance and workflow improvement. Improving performance...

My wife was hospitalized recently and, while spending time with her, I couldn’t help but notice how much time the nurses and...

Understanding the real-time workflow patterns of your nurses is crucial toward achieving high reliability in health care. Through their movements during the...

The best experience for a patient is to receive effective treatment without harm, and then to go home feeling better. In an...

Witnessing the harm or death of a patient caused by a medical error can be a traumatizing event to a healthcare worker....

Monitoring Transfusions to Save Lives Many people choose the hospital they go to for care according to the hospital’s reputation. A patient...

Compliance with hand hygiene protocols has been linked to reduced healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs). For example, an academic medical center reduced the incidence...